Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NW COPENHAGEN STREET 635-1/58/343 (South side) 10/05/73 Nos.7-23 (Odd) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: COPENHAGEN STREET (South side) Nos.7-21 (Odd)) (Formerly Listed as: COPENHAGEN STREET (South side) No.23 (Odd))

GV II

9 terraced houses, no. 23 with shop. c. 1820s-1830s with C20 reconstructed mid-C19 shopfront to no. 23. Yellow and brown stock bricks with banded stucco ground-floor; roofs obscured by parapet, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each, nos. 13-23 slightly projecting. Round-arched ground-floor openings to no. 11; elliptical-arched doorways and segmental-arched ground-floor sashes to nos. 13-21. Low steps rise to entrance in right bay: doorway with fluted 1/4 column jambs (nos. 7-9 with panelled pilasters & no. 21 with altered jambs) carrying corniced-head, panelled door (C20 door to nos. 13-21), and rectangular overlight (nos. 7-9), patterned (nos. 11 & 19), curved and radial (no. 17), stucco (nos. 13-15) and plain (no. 21) fanlights. Ground-floor 6/6 (nos. 7-13 & 17 with margin lights) and 1/1 C20 (no. 21) sashes; no. 23 with shopfront with recessed central glazed door flanked by projecting panelled bay windows each of 4 lights; pilasters support curved fascia and cornice. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper floors. 1st floor full-length 6/6 sashes with stucco sill band and individual iron balconies (nos. 9 & 23 balconies missing) with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion (nos. 7 & 17-19) or trefoil and Gothic arch (nos. 11-15) pattern to iron railings. 2nd floor 6/6 (nos. 7-15), 3/3 (nos. 17-19), 8/8 (no. 21) and 3/6(no. 23) sashes. Plain parapet with stone coping; nos. 7-9 with wide stucco band. Attached cast iron area railings with urn finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3118583553

External Links

• Wikidata Q26581069

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